The truth is that the end for which I work seems to me vastly more important than the methods I use or the instruments that I employ." It was the familiar chicanery of the popular leader, the justification of expediency, that Stephen had always found most repugnant as a political theory; and while he drew back, repelled and disgusted, he asked himself if the national conscience, the moral integrity of the race, was in the keeping of demagogues?
"I am curious to know," he remarked after a moment, "how you are able to justify the sacrifice of what I regard as common honesty in public affairs ?" To his surprise, instead of answering directly, Vetch put a personal question.

"Then you think I am not honest?
Darrow wouldn't agree with you." At this Darrow turned from the window.

"Perhaps he doesn't mean what we do," he said quietly.

"I've seen honest men that I knew ought to have been in prison." "I am speaking of course of the doctrines you advocate," answered Stephen.

"That seems to me to be, in the jargon of the reformer, somewhat unethical.